Hi Kyle -- my Ethernet card hosed up networking as well -- backing off the upgrade fixed it. Actually my networking worked first time with a clean install of 7022. Keys from the Beta worked to activate the build as well.

I could only get the card to work on 7000 via an UPGRADE . I could never make it work via clean install on build 7000.

Just for IE8 RC1 it was worth installing 7022.

If you've got 7034 - any news on progress with the .NET side of things.

All of my motherboard drivers came through Windows Update and I had no problems with anything either... I'm going to have to agree with Kyle on this one and say that it must have just been your network card in particuliar..

@ Jimbo45

I completely agree with you on IE 8 RC1 making Win 7 build 7022 worth the download.. What a huge increase in performance and overall compatibility... their getting close to being on par with Firefox now in my opinion...

Flashed my Laptop Bios with a new update -- seems to have fixed all the Network Card problems -- what a piece of BS to get the thing to work on what is ostensibly a decent and very portable laptop.

Now I can also see the Enable INTEL VT option. (Enable Intel Virtual Technology).

This allows amongst other things the computer to run 64 Bit Guest Virtual machines. - Note here that just because your computer has a 64 bit CPU it doesn't mean automatically that you can run a 64 bit virtual machine.

Bit of a drastic step flashing a BIOS -- only do it if you REALLY HAVE TO and on a laptop ensure you are connected to the mains throughout the whole process otherwise your Laptop will end up just being a useless Hunk of Metal.

Windows 7 build 7022 is very stable os Changelog: - The new side panel color shown in previous screenshots. - New Paint, as we saw in previous screenshots. - HomeGroup gets a new icon. - IE8 updated to RC1 - Faster search in startmenu, instant. - General higher stability in OS this is very important - New animations throughout Windows Explorer - Desktop Gadget Gallery is the new name for Sidebar. It gets a slightly refreshed icon